Radio UserLand Notes

I've been spending the last two weeks working on code for the aggregator in Radio, trying to make it store some extra info to make presenting the information easier and more flexible. One of the new things is a list item stored in the service's table in aggregatorData.root, containing a list of all of the unread story numbers. This allowed me to write a script that loops the services table and if a service has unread items, count them and add a link to the news page. Right now, the link is really a link with an arguement passed to the existing script (which lives at radio.html.viewNewsItems). Once I perfect the layout of the replacement script, I'll change the link to the new display.

This has forced the age-old debate to resurface: should the aggregator content be enclosed in a table or not. With the table comes order. Without the table you get style flexibility.

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